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Sunshine is the best disinfectant
Men feared witches and burned women.
There are no shortcuts in evolution.
People fear witches, and burn women.
Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant
Democracy is moral before it is political.
The most important thing we do is not doing.
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
The US States are our laboratories of democracy.
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.
There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.
I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.
In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.
We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.
It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.
The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.
If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.
Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part
We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.
Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.
No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.
There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.